Sylvester Syropoulos On Politics And Culture In The Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean: Themes And Problems In The Memoirs, Section Iv (Birmingham Byzantine And Ottoman Studies)

The contributors of this volume take the Memoirs of Sylvester Syropoulos, written by a Byzantine ecclesiastical official in the fifteenth century, as their starting point in reconstructing Mediterranean living conditions and artistic and commercial exchange in the late Middle Ages. Syropoulos's text, a rare eye-witness account of the Council of Ferrara-Florence for the union of the Greek and Latin Churches (1438?439), is discussed as an invaluable source for political affairs at that time, as a travel account, and as a literary work. An annotated translation of the text is included.

• • Author: Dr Fotini Kondyli, Ms Vera Andriopoulou, Dr Mary B Cunningham, Dr Eirini Panou
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: May 30, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 262 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409439666
• • ISBN-13: 9781409439660